The Shelter Hall team The city’s seafront is primed for the re-opening of Shelter Hall at the bottom of West Street on Monday 9 February, writes Nick Mosley. The iconic Victorian Shelter Hall was originally built in the 1880s to provide rest and refreshments to promenaders and beach-goers. The structure was topped with a glass dome and a decagonal glass-sided kiosk that lit the space from above that is now home to a local seafood restaurant. In the 1980s and 1990s, the space was repurposed...

Crazy Goose on Boyce's Street, Brighton (credit Richard Boll) With the much-anticipated opening of the Crazy Goose gastropub on Boyce’s Street in Brighton’s Lanes earlier in February, Nick Mosley takes a gander. I’ve got a bit of a soft-spot for this particular venue as its where the Black Rock Restaurant Group story began way back in 2011 when owner Raz Helalat took the plunge and opened his very own restaurant, The Coal Shed. The rest – as they say – is history, as Raz’s entrepreneurial...

28 day aged Sussex sirloin of beef at The Bull in Ditchling A couple of years ago, I reviewed both the White Horse Inn and The Bull in Ditchling village and I have to say both were thoroughly unimpressive, writes Nick Mosley. The Bull marginally won out of the two but it was a close call and most definitely nothing to write home about, although I clearly did. All very disappointing as – before being sold to Young’s brewery – under former publican-owner Dominic Worrall and manager Molly...